This lesson is created through the online platform SoftChalk. The lesson will take students through the 5 parts of an argumentative essay with videos and short interactive activities. When students have completed the lesson they will have a better understanding of what an argumentative essay should look and sound like. 

One annotates a passage that needs an explanation to be thoroughly understood and appreciated.  Often, in works of literature, an editor will annotate the text in the margin (or at the bottom of each page) to further insight into sources of information that could bolster the reader's understanding. Anyone can annotate an article, speech, page in a novel or passage within a text. An individual makes notes that analyze the specific wording found in the course, which provides background information related to the selection; or referring the passage to another part of the same text. This lesson plan reflects passage annotation and helps students elaborate on the concept within literature and further guidance when writing an essay related to a selected text. 

Here is the link to the new Passion-Driven Statistics e-book!

Github book https://bit.ly/PDSe-book

pdf version https://bit.ly/PDSpdf

Passion-Driven Statistics is an NSF-funded, multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum that supports students in conducting data-driven research, asking original questions, and communicating methods and results using the language of statistics. The curriculum supports students to work with existing data covering psychology, health, earth science, government, business, education, biology, ecology and more. From existing data, students are able to pose questions of personal interest and then use statistical software (e.g. SAS, R, Python, Stata, SPSS) to answer them. The e-book is presented in pdf format for ease of use across platforms.

http://bit.ly/EditPDSe-book

For more information, contact Lisa Dierker, ldierker@wesleyan.edu or check out the Passion-Driven Statistics website at https://passiondrivenstatistics.com/

In the Writing Strategies series, Peer Learning Facilitators from the UCLA Undergraduate Writing Center give their top writing tips, from revising topic sentences to crafting conclusion paragraphs! Each video includes interactive questions to test your knowledge. In this video, learn all about passive and active voice with Jemma!

This short activity provides an intuitive introduction to earthquake magnitude using an everyday item--spaghetti. Learners are introduced to the earthquake magnitude scale by breaking different amounts of uncooked noodles. Visual scale of the pasta emphasizes the relative differences between magnitudes with each whole step in magnitude. For older students, the demonstration helps students understand why seismologists use the nonlinear logarithmic scale to best graph the huge range of quantities.

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This resource contains integrated tasks, assessments, and skill building exercises to continually push language learning forward. In these integrated examples, the content of the the text is the vehicle that drives skill development; it simultaneously deepens our understanding of the world around us.

This resource contains integrated tasks, assessments, and skill building exercises to continually push language learning forward. In these integrated examples, the content of the the text is the vehicle that drives skill development; it simultaneously deepens our understanding of the world around us.

Allow your students to relive December 7, 1941 and react to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They will hear first hand accounts from survivors and experience what it was like to be there that day. Further, let them shape their own opinions about the roles Japan and the United States played in the war, and empathize with those left in the atomic aftermath.

A video that makes the unspoken assumptions that we use in pedigree analysis explicit through a skit of two students solving a challenging pedigree question over videoconference. The students discuss certain pedigree assumptions which are often not mentioned in other pedigree teaching materials, even though they can be important to solving complex problems. The students recognize that not all assumptions are always applicable and sometimes we need to reconsider which assumptions to use.Includes two videos: a version without subtitles and a version with subtitles

Students are asked, as individuals in a team, to critically review the draft of a multimedia web site authored by another team in my course. Student must follow a template with 5 review criteria, and submit their review to each member of the web site author team and to me.

Please see the handout below for instructions I give to students for this activity.

"Pierre the Penguin: Teaching About Heat and Insulation Through Adaptations" by Jessica Fries-Gaither, Ohio State University is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.https://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/pierre-the-penguin-teaching-about-heat-and-insulation-through-adaptationsThis OER has been adapted by remixing it into interactive Google Slides. Students will read about Pierre the penguin and answer questions about how the same animals might have different adaptations based on their environment. 

Find out some fun and unusual facts about penguins in this short and interesting article.

Physical and chemical (biostratinomic) processes that operate on an entity prior to its burial and incorporation into the fossil record ultimately influence how it is interpreted by a researcher when collected and evaluated. Beginning geoscience and paleontology students often assume that a character gradient exists in a fossil assemblage that reflects a temporal trend. That is, fossils recovered from the same assemblage exhibiting well-preserved features are "younger" than those in which poorly-defined features occur. The assumption is that poorly preserved fossils have been in the "taphonomic mill" longer than those showing well-defined characters. Of course, the taphonomic (biostratinomic) history of any fossil is, well, individual, with an array of biochemical, geochemical, and physical factors operating on each over different spatial and temporal scales. This exercise is designed to demonstrate, with pocket change, that the external features of an entity result from a combination of factors influencing. This beginning taphonomic exercise is an attempt to have students think about the array of variuos processes that can play a role in how an object appears in an assemblage.

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In this assignment, students are shown real world examples of percentages. They are asked to make calculations and fix calculation mistakes. This assignment will require students to be able to calculate percent increase and percent decrease.

This resource is an interactive website assignment, which will allow students to explore the organization and elements of the periodic table. The resource includes a link to an outside source (interactive periodic table). The atomic number, atomic mass, period #, group #, classification, melting point, atomic radius, electronegativity, state of matter, boiling point, outer orbital, and abundance of each element can be found in the outside source. This resource will allow students to see for themselves how the periodic table is organized and the different properties of the elements, along with requiring them to answer various questions relating to the topics above.

This is an introduction to the History on the development and contributions of the modern periodic table.The lesson includes a PowerPoint, activities, Pretest and a lab.

This template is meant to be a guide for Nebraska Teachers when creating Units of Instruction for the BlendEd Best Practices Project. Headings and/or topics not included in the lesson plan should be marked N/A.

This Demonstration shows 3D bar charts of the periodic table with various element property values.